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Real Estate Portfolio May/Jun 2007 Dees Stribling	The Dawning of Derivatives REIT and real estate derivatives are introduced as a new financial tool in the real estate world.
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Knowledge@Wharton February 12, 2003	The Changing Use of Derivatives: More Hedging, Less Speculation High-risk gambles like those that torpedoed Orange County, Gibson and P&G are far less likely than conservative plays meant to hedge against loss in underlying markets such as energy, commodities or currencies.
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The Motley Fool April 8, 2009 Morgan Housel	They're All Too Big to Fail Plenty of Wall Street banks -- all of them "too big to fail" -- are still ticking time bombs when it comes to bloated derivative books.
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The Motley Fool May 12, 2010 Alex Dumortier	Morgan Stanley Wishes It Weren't Like Goldman U.S. prosecutors are investigating whether Morgan misled investors in mortgage derivatives; similar to the charges against Goldman Sachs.
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Reason February 2004 Callahan & Kaza	In Defense of Derivatives Between Enron, WorldCom, and Global Crossing, the controversial financial instruments have gotten a bad rap. Here's the truth.
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The Motley Fool June 15, 2010 Alex Dumortier	Banks: Wave These Profits Goodbye Senate Agriculture Chairman Blanche Lincoln's plan to force banks that receive government support to spin out their profitable swaps trading desks is now likely to pass.
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